Medicine: Physicians in Montreal

The American College of Physicians at Montreal last week intended to
talk extensively about the patients as persons, rather than as
collections of symptoms and ills. That intention did not eventuate. As
usual the physicians talked about specific diseases and ways of curing
them. Discussed were:

Hot Cure. Radio waves and hot air are curing arthritis, syphilis,
gonococcal infections and certain blood-vessel diseases of the hands
and feet at Dayton's Miami Valley Hospital. The patient lies in an
insulated chamber, his head, however, protruding. In the chamber's side
walls are large condenser plates which, like the aerials of radio
systems, send a...